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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:08:02 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU GLOBAL 
Message-ID:  <31031.937807682@localhost>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:48:01 MDT." <37E5BC81.B57D6396@softweyr.com> 

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> like a virus to everything it touches.  For this reason, the FreeBSD Project
> has decided no GPL code will be included in the system itself, unless the

Actually, that's not *quite* accurate.  What we decided was that GNU
code would be kept well-segregated from the rest, just to make it
clear where the pitfalls were, and that we'd try not to take in any
new GPL'd code or accept a GPL'd solution if there was a perfectly
equivalent BSD copyrighted solution also available.

- Jordan


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